2144 WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 24.

for the reception of guests, or permanent or transent boarders,
containing therein for use at all times, at least six good beds,
with sufficient covering therefor, and having on his premises a
stable sufficient for the accommodation of five or more horses,
shall be deemed and considered to be a hotel keeper within the
meaning of this sub-title of this article.

1876, ch. 146.

135. Any such hotel keeper in said county may file his peti-
tion with the clerk of the circuit court for said county, setting
forth therein that he wishes to sell or barter intoxicating, spirit-
uous or fermented liquors by the drink only; and any storekeeper,
except apothecaries, in said county, may file his petition as above
stated, to sell intoxicating, spirituous or fermented liquors, in
quantities not less than a pint; provided, he shall file with said
petition a written certificate, signed by twelve freeholders, resi-
dent citizens of the school district in which said applicant desires
to sell intoxicating liquor, setting forth their belief that the appli-
cant for such license will keep an orderly house, and duly observe
the provisions of this sub-title of this article; and if said appli-
cant be a hotel keeper, shall satisfy the said clerk by his own
oath, and by the oath of two respectable and disinterested wit-
nesses, of their belief therein, that he has bona fide, and without
intending to evade the spirit and meaning of this sub-title of this
article, duly provided, and will maintain and keep for use, at
least six good beds with sufficient covering therefor, and at least
four chambers more than are or may be sufficient for the private
or family purposes of said hotel keeper, with stabling to be at all
times sufficient for five horses at least, all said beds and chambers,
to be and remain on the said premises on which intoxicating
liquor is by this sub-title of this article licensed to be sold; and
each applicant shall also file in the office of said clerk his bond, duly-
executed to the State, with at least two sureties, to be approved by
said clerk, in the penal sum of fifteen hundred dollars, conditioned
for the faithful observance of the provisions of this sub-title of this.
article, and the payment of any and all fines, penalties and dam-
ages which may be imposed or recovered under this sub-title of
this article, which said bond shall be responsible to all such per-
sons hereinafter described as may be injured by the sale of intoxi-
cating liquors sold by any person licensed under this sub-title of.